J. Tillman Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
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I don't sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love. That's what I know about.
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I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.
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From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
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I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
